Dear Friends, family and supporters of Sari Bari-
Sari Bari has been working the red light areas of Kolkata for more than 4 years offering freedom and hope to women trapped the sex trade. Even after opening our second unit last year to create more spaces and opportunities for freedom, we are now busting at the [...]
Pray for the opening of our Prevention Unit in Canning which opened on Tuesday June 8, 2010!!! Pray for Gita as she manages, leads, and serves the ladies who come to work there. Also pray for trust to be built within this community, that many women and girls would be saved from the horrors of [...]
On behalf of our community, I just want to say thank you so much for all your prayers for our community…it is each of you standing beside us here that keeps us going…we’re in this together, even across oceans…peace.
Pray for our new prevention unit that will be opening on the first of June!!! [...]
Pornima’s body was cremated today and we know in our hearts that she has been given her True freedom and entry into the Promised Land earlier than we expected. Her body was accompanied by her Sari Bari and Freeset families as well as her mother and son. One of the girls commented that Pornima would [...]
The Kolkata community suffered a deep loss Tuesday. One of our ladies who has spent three months with us in training was murdered by a customer last night. There will be no justice for her… everyone in the brothels knows who did it but will not speak up. This is a devastating loss for our [...]
The Brothel Visitation Staff spent a December evening passing out flowers to all the women in the red-light district.
In December, the North American Staff took a retreat to Gangtok for rest and reflection on Henri Nouwen’s Can You Drink the Cup and the Enneagram.
On Dec. 18, WMF Kolkata’s long-time friend Puja passed away due to [...]
Continue to pray for all of our SB ladies and their families. Pray for each woman’s health, safety and provision.
Also continue to pray for all of our staff and their families. Pray for wisdom for our staff as they continue to lead and serve the SB ladies, and that they will grow in their [...]
Dear Friends of WMF’s South Asia Communities,
I hope this letter finds each of you doing well and encouraged by the coming season. I am encouraged as I remember that Christ came and continues to desire to come in the lives of our friends in Thailand, Nepal , Kolkata and Chennai, India. It is [...]
Pray for the details of Sari Bari’s transition from a propietership to a Private Limited. Pray that we would find an honest reliable accountant, and that all the details and would be worked out for this big change. Pray especially for Sarah and Upendra as they work on these transitions!
Pray for one of [...]
Check out www.saribari.com in July to help the cause of freedom for our friends in the red light area!